CVE-2018-1000500: Busybox

High severity, CVSS 8.1. EPSS: 2.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Busybox contains a Missing SSL certificate validation vulnerability in The "busybox wget" applet that can result in arbitrary code execution. This attack appear to be exploitable via Simply download any file over HTTPS using "busybox wget https://compromised-domain.com/important-file".

Affected products

• Busybox Busybox: before 1.32.0 (fixed in 1.32.0)

Published 2018-06-26. Last modified 2026-06-17.